President Obama delivered a stirring speech this week that was hard for the GOP to swallow, as Marco Rubio proved in his parched rendition of a rebuttal which was just a stream of repeated talking points that poured out of his mouth.

So this week’s music thread is a tribute to the gulp heard round the world. Songs about water, drinking and all things that are all wet…like the GOP.

One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer – George Throughgood and the Destroyers

Speakers Corner

With all of the hoopla surrounding the films screened in the Obama White House, I got curious about what the past presidents watched. What follows is by no means complete, but an interesting bit of history.

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The film is a truly great mixture of drama, resistance to the forces of politics, the adroit combination comedy, and love story, in a culinary battle for the utmost Michilin Star rating for an established French fine dining enterprise that is a mere 100 feet apart from a brand new (to the village) Indian restaraunt.

CLEVELAND (AP) — The attorney for the family of a 12-year-old
boy who had a pellet gun when he was fatally shot by Cleveland
police says the city's response to the family's lawsuit was
insulting and disrespectful.

By Arshad Mohammed MONTREUX, Switzerland (Reuters) - Iran on
Tuesday rejected as "unacceptable" U.S. President Barack Obama's
demand that it freeze sensitive nuclear activities for at least 10
years but said it would continue talks on a deal, Iran's
semi-official Fars news agency reported. Iran laid out the position
as the U.S. and Iranian foreign ministers met for a second day of
negotiations and as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
delivered a stinging critique of the agreement that they are trying
to work out. Iran's Mohammed Javad Zarif and the United States'
John Kerry met a day after Obama told Reuters that Iran must commit
to a verifiable halt of at least 10 years on sensitive nuclear work
for a landmark atomic deal to be reached. "Iran will not accept
excessive and illogical demands," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad
Javad Zarif was quoted as saying by Fars.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Former Rhode Island House Speaker
Gordon Fox has pleaded guilty to charges of bribery, wire fraud and
filing a false tax return following an investigation that included
a dramatic federal raid on the Statehouse.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S.-led military coalition in Iraq has
killed more than 8,500 Islamic State fighters since its bombing
campaign began in August and has gained the upper hand, the top
general overseeing the coalition said Tuesday.

Rent will gobble up nearly 60 percent of New Yorkers' income in
2015 with the median cost of an apartment to rise to $2,700 a
month, a real-estate website said. Rent prices in the city grew at
nearly twice the pace of income between 2000 and 2013, estimated
StreetEasy, meaning that rent has taken up an increasingly larger
share of New Yorkers' incomes. The website estimated that the
median asking rent in New York is expected to reach $2,700 in 2015,
amounting to a staggering 58.4 percent of median income in the
city. In some neighborhoods the rent-to-income ratio is predicted
to be even higher: a staggering 107 percent in Manhattan's
Chinatown with a median rent of $2,485 and 86 percent in
Williamsburg, the uber cool part of Brooklyn with spectacular views
across the river to Manhattan.

JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — Before they ultimately postponed an
execution at the eleventh hour, Georgia officials were indecisive
about whether they should proceed with a cloudy injection drug,
according to a court filing.

Fresh talk of a third international bailout for debt-hit Greece
spread through European capitals on Tuesday, despite Brussels
insisting it was far too soon to start discussing any new rescue
package. Speculation mounted on Monday when Spain's finance
minister Luis de Guindos said EU officials estimated a third
bailout of up to 50 billion euros ($55 billion) would be needed to
keep Greece afloat and avoid a painful exit from the euro. A fresh
rescue package would be a major U-turn for Greece's new hard-left
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who swept to power in January on the
promise that Athens would leave the era of bailouts and their
associated austerity measures.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes fell broadly in afternoon
trading Tuesday as investors await earnings from the few companies
yet to announce results and a jobs report later this week. The
Nasdaq fell below 5,000 a day after passing that milestone for the
first time since the dot-com era 15 years ago.